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Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing (Penn State Reprints in Book History)
Of Making Many Books A Hundred Years of Reading Writing and Publishing - Penn State Reprints in Book History Author:Roger Burlingame, Roger Burlingame A reprint of the classic 1946 house history of Charles Scribners Sons, reissued on the publishers 150th anniversary. From its beginnings in 1846 in a brick chapel on Park Row to its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s at 597 Fifth Avenue, the publishing firm of Charles Scribners Sons reflected many of the dominant movements in ninet... more »eenth- and twentieth-century American book publishing. Working with the correspondence and business papers of the house, Roger Burlingame prepared this centenary account of the firm in 1946. Filled with lively portrayals of writers and publishers, Of Making Many Books illuminates the professional careers of many Scribner authors: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harold Frederic, Henry Adams, Rudyard Kipling, George Santayana, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and others. Burlingame shows publishing from the editorial side as wellfrom the perspectives of W. C. Brownell, Maxwell Perkins, and John Hall Wheelock. Out of print for many years, this history of one of Americas most venerable publishers is now reissued, with an introduction by Charles Scribner III, on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the house.« less